Students Place First On-site in ACM Regional Programming Contest

On November 6, 2010, the Computer Science Department sent three teams of
undergraduate students to CNU to participate in the 2010 ACM
Mid-Atlantic Regional Programming contest. This contest is held every
year to select teams that will compete in the International Programming Contest, which this year will be held in Egypt.

The participants included Chase Albert, Michael Christensen, and Brett
Cooley for team 1; Stephen Howe, Kevin Howell, and Alex Valentin for team
2; and Sarah Cameron, Kevin Cox, and Joel Gillespie for team 3.

Our teams performed exceedingly well. Team 1 earned the title of First
Team on-site, solving 3 of the 8 problems posed in the 5 hours of the
contest. They also placed 12th overall in the regional standings
out of approximately 160 teams. For their efforts, team 1 received a
plaque which can be seen on the ACM bulletin board in the Computer
Science Department. Team 2 was second on site (38th overall) and team 3
was 4th on site (48th overall).